Saturday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time

Blessed Virgin Mary
First Saturday of the Month

Readings of the Day
RB: Prologue 33-38
Mass: 1 Cor 4:6b-15; Resp Ps 145; Lk 6:1-5

The Lord is near to all who call upon Him.

MARY, REFUGE OF SINNERS,

PRAY FOR US.

In the last verse from today's passage from the Holy Rule, Saint Benedict, quoting the Prophet Ezekiel, writes this: "And indeed the Lord assures us in his love: I do not wish the death of the sinner, but he turn back to me and live (Ezk 33:11)/Prol 38. On this First Saturday of the Month, we turn to Mary, Mother of our Lord, to help us turn to her Son, to turn away from evil and do good, to choose life not death.

Hail Mary, 

Full of Grace, 

The Lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God,

pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death.

Amen.

Knowing in advance the course and outcome of all miseries, Mary sooths our fear, she awakens our faith, she strengthens our hope, she dispels our lack of confidence, she bolsters our timidness.

(Saint Bernard of Clairvaux)

Today's photo: Taken yesterday late afternoon around 5:30 p.m. Nice.

© Gertrude Feick 2020